Robbed

Tonight at work, Sharon and I were robbed.

This guy comes in, picks up two 40s, walks over to the counter and says something to the effect of "I am taking these out of the store. You're not going to stop me."

I was totally bewildered, and I think I said "Pardon?" And I think he repeated himself.

In my total bewilderment I stepped between him and the exit and said, "No, you can't do that."

He took a step towards me and said something like, "You don't want to do that." I then realized what I was doing, and realized how unbelievably stupid it was to try and stop this guy over two stupid bottles.

But oddly enough, before I processed this thought and actually moved out of his way, HE turned around a left through the entrance.

It was all very strange. We called the non-emergency police line and they responded very quickly (to my surprise) and actually took a report and stuff. But of course didn't offer much hope of catching the guy (duh).

I was SUPER pissed off. I felt like we had been taken advantage of for being girls. I m totally sure it wouldn't have happened if my big, male manager had been in the store. It was an opportunistic crime, and the opportunity was a liquor store staffed by only two chicks. I went on a full rant to Sharon about how mad it made me.

Then this guy came in with a 5-week old puppy and he totally let me hold it. And he wriggled all around in my arms and climbed on my shoulders and licked me. It was awesome.

But I am still mad. I totally wish I had kicked that dipshit in the balls.

Going for Run/Walk

IT IS 12 FREAKING DEGREES. Vancouver is AWESOME.

I am heading out to enjoy the sunshine for a bit. It is my hope that I can run for about 30 minutes, but we will see what my wonky back and shoulders have to say about it. It might be more of a stroll.

I am not going to take my camera , but if I did, I would post some pictures later of all the crocuses and snowdrops that have started blooming. ;)

Hugs to all of you still wearing long johns...

Hives!

Yeah, so still allergic.

Fingers Crossed

When I was in grade 8, I injured my back slipping and falling running hurdles. My mom bought me some Robaxasol (a version of Robaxacet) and when I took it, my entire body broke out in hives. We reached the conclusion that I was allergic to something in the medication, but never really figured out what exactly.
Last night at the library, I turned my head slightly in one direction and immediately thought "uh-oh." Something twinged between my shoulder blades, and since that time, I've had very little luck with moving my body at all. So this morning, I (gingerly) walked over to London Drugs to buy an ice pack and take at look at my options for an OTC back pain medication. Turns out it is basically Robaxacet or nothing. So I read the labels, and found out that both Robaxacet and Robaxasol have the same muscle relaxant in them, but different pain reliever - one has acetaminophen (Tylenol) and one has ASA (Aspirin). I decided to take the chance that my reaction long ago was to the Aspirin, rather than to the muscle relaxant. Or alternatively the chance that maybe I've outgrown the allergy.
So, fingers crossed now that I won't have to add "allergic reaction" to my list of woes for the day.

AKA

It's currently reading week. Based on my behavior and plans so far it could more accurately be referred to as any (or all) of the following:

sleeping week
watching curling week
finally go skiing week
go for long walks in the sunshine week
watching DVDs of Boston Legal week
recreational (as opposed to necessary) coffee drinking week

Damn, I need to get to work.

Still totally worth it

It's almost 2:30 am. I had a double espresso a couple of hours ago to keep me going. I am working on the goddamn citations in my assignment (I hate citations, and insist that in this day in age they are friggin' obsolete - just google it for crying out loud).

Monday night was still totally worth it.

And I finally listened to the Shuyler Jansen CD today. Totally awesome. It is called "Today's Remains" Buy it.

I regret nothing

It is quarter to 1 in the morning on a school night. I had three beers tonight, which is three beers to many for a Monday. I spent $30 on CDs, leaving my weekly budget at negative $20. I have about 400 hours of work to do on an assignment that is due Friday at 4pm, and I will be cursing this evening's recklessness at around 3 am on Friday morning, as I peck away at it. I just shared a 10 McNugget Value meal with my friend Nikki and I am about to go to bed with 500 extra calories in my belly.

BUT IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT. I just got back from the live show of Jim Bryson and Shuyler Jansen at the Media Club. It was so awesome. Easily the most intimate show I have ever been to, I got to ask Shuyler specifically which of his two CDs I should buy, since I could only afford to buy one, and I got Jim to autograph the copy of his latest CD that I bought. It was like heaven for indie music nerds.

And I really enjoyed hanging out with a newish friend who I haven't really done the whole one on one girl-date thing with before. But we had an awesome time, and shared some seriously great laughs.

So totally worth it. So skipping Contracts tomorrow. :)

Hilarious Quotes from Work Today

"And we've still only had one customer today."
"No, we've had two. I just sold two bottles of wine."
"Oh yeah, I forgot. I was too busy thinking about syphilis"

"Blink-182 BROKE UP? I thought they were just resting!"
"Yeah. Resting like that goldfish you had when you were 8"

"i hate this song"
"I've never heard it before. What is it?"
"I think she's singing 'Love Burns' "
"Aaand we're back to syphilis."

I promised my co-worker that I would keep it anonymous, but these were such gems that I had to share.

Sharon to the rescue

Yesterday I was pretty excited to go to work, because I was working for the first time with my friend Sharon (who got me the job), who just got back from a month and change in Australia. After she got her till counted and set up she said to me "I brought you a coke, if you want it and I brought pancakes too." This seemed extremely random, so I asked "Pancakes?" and she said "Yeah, it's Pancake Tuesday!"

How could have forgot? I love pancake tuesday - it is a family tradition.

I was extremely grateful to Sharon for making sure I participated in the annual tradition as we dipped our microwaved Eggo pancakes into tiny beer-tasting cups of maple syrup (that I picked up in the tourist section of the Bay) and ate them standing over the sink. Afterwards, we drank the remaining maple syrup straight out of the cups.

Rubbernecking

I feel bad, but I can't help it. I swear this is the meanest piece of gossip I will ever post, but it is too much of an odd situation not to post. It just feels a bit like staring at a grisly highway accident.

There was this rumor floating around school during our first week. It seemed really crazy, and a bunch of us figured that it had to be a joke, something concocted by the second years to see how gullible all us innocent first years were. But no, my friend later did a little googling and voila, we had confirmation that indeed, a second year student had been arrested, charged, and was awaiting trial for second degree murder. And it seems like there's pretty substantial proof that he did it - there is security video of the incident - it is just a matter of whether he has a reasonable defense of lack of intent, or self defense or something.

After a while, we finally figured out who he was so now I see him occasionally around campus, and it is just a little odd. I have no idea what is actually going on with the case and all that, though I figure he must be pretty confident that he'll get off, if he is still devoting his time to law school.

Dude is currently sitting a few tables away from me in the library. It doesn't really make me uncomfortable, but it is sort of distracting.

If you don't believe me about this, I can send you a link to a news paper article confirming my very odd story, but I am not going to post a link to it. It seems too morbid.

Yeah, posting the link seems morbid, but the rest of this post is just fine. Riiight.